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adverbialize
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transitive verb
ad·ver·bi·al·ize
\(ˈ)ad-¦vər-bē-ə-ˌlīz\
variants: also British
adverbialise
Definition of adverbialize
adverbialized
;adverbializing
;adverbializes
linguistics
: to create an adverb from (an adjective, a noun, etc.) As noted earlier … Roumanian does not adverbialize adjectives in the lexicon, but instead simply uses adjectivals freely in modifier function … — Frederick Browning Agard, A Course in Romance Linguistics, 1984
adverbialization
also Britishadverbialisation
\(ˈ)ad-¦vər-bē-ə-lə-¦zā-shən, -ˌlī-¦zā-\ play noun The accusative case was the primary case used for adverbialization of nouns … — Roger D. Woodard, The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia, 2008Explore M-W
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